This study uses a rate of return model and a Regression technique to estimate the net effects of investment in higher education in the United States, more comprehensively on key measures of monetary and non-monetary outcomes ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of differences in the gender and racial identity of students on the perceived leader skill, motivation to lead, and leadership self-efficacy of themselves and other ...

African American students that attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois and University), from the early years of its founding had to bear much of the burden their ancestors had endured. ...

The portrayal of race in news media has received much attention over the past few decades by scholars. Despite this, no unifying theoretical approach for analysis has been developed or employed. Further, little attention ...

To navigate modernist fiction's racial constructions is to understand how race anatomizes the ascendant value of newness in the twentieth century. In the primary texts of this dissertation, manifold visions of race, racism, ...

Based on a sample of 57,645 birth and death certificates, this study examines infant mortality in Illinois among the 1985-1988 white and African American live birth cohorts. The primary focus is on race differences in the ...

Studies were conducted (1) to determine H. glycines egg hatch and emergence of second-stage juveniles (J2) from cysts exposed to soybean root leachate in vitro and under field conditions, (2) to determine effect of six ...

My findings demonstrate that the variations of social welfare systems in the developing world are rooted in the conflicting dynamics of industrialization and globalization. Industrialization in the developing world has an ...

How does economic integration affect social protection regimes differently across the developing world? The existing literature predicts a causal relationship between globalization and larger welfare states under the ...

The dissertation examines literary and journalistic representations of blackness under the authoritarian regimes of Rafael Trujillo (1930-61) in the Dominican Republic and the Ditadura Militar (1964-85) in Brazil. I argue ...

Previous research has shown that the health of black Americans is persistently worse than that of white Americans. The aim of this dissertation is to comprehend why these racial differences in morbidity and mortality exist. ...

The transfer of cultural, social, and symbolic capital shapes the educational processes and influences the educational outcomes of African-American students in desegregated environments. The stratified nature of capital ...

National Parks have become an integral part of global life in both developed and developing countries during the last century. Today, there are more than 1,200 national parks and nature preserves around the world. The U.S. ...

This study used feminist intersectionality and identity theories to examine the association between residential context (racial exposure and community climate) and identity salience among 375 lesbian, gay, and bisexual ...